It amazes me that isn’t there someone somewhere out there who can save these places? It also amazes me that these beautiful houses get abandoned. I have a beautiful old building just minutes away and I can’t tell if it was a house or a barn. It is unique with these many small square windows but long like a barn but not as big as a barn! If those of us who really appreciated those old houses came together we might be able to afford one together!!! It is sad to see these places just disappear! Thanks for sharing!

The first time I saw your photos of this old home it reminded me a lot of the one in the movie, “The Notebook.” It’s so sad someone didn’t recognize this grand old lady’s potential and work to bring her back to life they way Noah, the main character in the movie, did.

So dissapointing she was torn down instead of being renovated. Wait…maybe she was moved to a new location? Wishful thinking , I’m sure. I hope they at least had the decency to save all those beautiful architectual elements. Your “Tresspasses” post will immortalize her as long as this technology exits. Some of your photos would make lovely art.

We drove by our first home. It was sad. They took all the beautiful landscaping we put in the front and painted the house exterior dark ugly brown and goldenrod! Except they ran out of paint and it is two lovely shades of green on one section! Lord, they must have thrown out the covenant control! Or those poor people are truly color blind! Then our second home, it looks like a bad b/w old Mexican movie! The whole neighborhood is filled entirely with illegals! Some homes have 10-20 cars parked on the lawn, or where it use to be! Sad!
This home was once so lovely you can tell there were many good times to be had! Nice cold lemonade on a porch in the summer. watching the snow fall in the winter. What nice memories to remember.

Deborah, you have no idea how much of a sore spot you have hit with me here. There were 2 houses almost identical to this that were still standing Only 1 and 2 years ago 2 towns north of me, I used to live there. The one used to be an old farm, when the man was still alive he allowed visitors and they could see the goats and sheep, and he even had a little train outside he would take the kids for rides on. I sit here now just shaking my head thinking of it. Not to mention all the acres and acres of trees taken down in the same area and then right outside our little “lost village”(of the pine barrens) they put up 3 “active adult communities” and one large estate development.

My husband, who is older than I has seen much more of it than me. He keeps saying they need to change our stat motto to “The Treeless State” instead of the Garden state.